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Wall Piece

Wall Piece is a site-specific projection installation occurring in the space between the artist’s studio and the wall of a building viewed from his window. The artist photographed the wall under different lighting conditions, compiled the photographs, and processed them digitally. The complex, layered images that were created are projected back onto the wall from the studio’s window.

The neglected wall, which stands completely dark during the night, is then exposed through the projection. Its central formative elements – the window frame, the remains of dripping white wall paint, the peeling plaster, the crumbling bricks, the plastic tubes – are also repeated in the projected images, creating a range of optical illusions. In a feedback loop, the wall resonates itself and becomes infinite, a prolific ground for artistic action and a new perspective, which reconfigures the familiar urban space.

Wall Piece was created in Artport Tel Aviv as part of a year-long residency program, and was first exhibited to the public as part of ‘Exit Strategies’ Public art festival in Tel Aviv.

Songs of the Next War – LIVE

As part of  “Songs of the Next War” project, a series of live events is conducted, combining live audio-visual performances and multimedia installations. The events feature live musical sets by Ofer Tisser (Turntables), Yuval Shenhar (vocals), and Aviad Zinemanas (DJ). The three performances are alternately performed from different locations in the venue and slightly overlap. All performances were based on an archive of forgotten Jewish-Arab war songs recorded in Israel during the Six-Day War period (1967). The original records are presented to the public during the events.

Video cinematography: Nadav Porat-Chomsky / Stills photography: Hila Ido / taken in the first performance of the project at Soundart Pasaz, curated by Hagit Werner.

Bad Seeds of Summer

In June 2015, I was invited to work and exhibit in Hamidrasha gallery, located at Hayarkon street in Tel Aviv, Next to the promenade and the beach. I decided to invite some friends to join me in welcoming the summer together – in a sort of a common attempt to deal with the concerns and fears that re-emerge every year as the temperature goes up. This attempt reflected in an event and an exhibition I curated and produced, under the title “Bad Seeds of Summer”. In the exhibition, I debuted audio-visual material from a new project – ‘Songs of The Next War’ alongside with ‘Noon’, an Installation created in collaboration with Aviad Zinemanas. Also exhibited: Yael Meiri (print), Rotem Rozenboim (digital illustrasion), Matan Lipman (video), Hila Ido (photography), Dan Allon (performance), Andres Gurwicz (Installation, print), Eliran Vegh and Elinor Salomon (video game). Live music performances of KSR, Tisser and Mishmash were held in the opening event, accompanied with live video projection. Most of the works, performances and installations were conducted by the participants especially for the event.

Event stills & video documentation by Hila Ido.

Road to Eri

A video documentation of ‘Road to Eri’ as installed in the street corner of Bney Brak and Eiger in Neve Sheaanan neighborhood, Tel-Aviv. The piece was created by Dor Zlekha Levy and Ofer Tisser for ‘night light‘ Festival, December 2014. It is compiled of samples that were taken from Eritrean video clips and songs. ‘Road to Eri’ was playing in the street for three nights.

#Blind video clip

The ‘#Blind’ installation was made in Tel Aviv, August 2014, during the late stages of operation ‘Protective Edge’. The piece was shot in a single shot and is brought here as a video clip. At the center of a closed space sits a singer with his mouth shut appearing to almost be lip-less. He stares at the flickering images on the TV screen with his back turned to the view of his home land. The landscape footage was made of videos of musical heroes from the region combined with videos documenting the events of summer 2014. The piece deconstructs the documentary materials and uses them to describe a multi-layered, augmented and complex experience of reality. It is questionable whether or not the screams, alarms and bombings manage to penetrate the thick skinned singer whose main objective is – to sing.

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Audio by O MER / Video and projections by Dor Zlekha Levy /Cinematography – Nadav Porat Chomsky / Color – Eyal Cohen / Post  – Yotam Rozin / Make Up – Shiran Sheffler / Cinematographer Assistant – Yair Cymmerman Alcabes / Projection Assistants – Ofer Tisser, Roni Shavit

Graduate exhibition, July 2014

Entrance hall installation
‘Mañana Mañana’, ceiling projections
The corridor beetween the rooms
A view of the Inner room
‘The Tarab Prince’
‘Ayooni’

A still documentation of my graduate exhibition, as installed in Hamidrasha Faculty of the arts main gallery in July 2014.

The exhibition consisted of three pieces: “Mañana Mañana“, “Ayooni” and “The Tarab Prince“. Mañana Mañanawas playing at the entrance hall to the gallery. It was projected over the 7 meters high square-pyramid shaped ceiling. A long corridor connected this hall in to a seperate room, where “Ayooni” and “The Tarab Prince” were playing in synchronization. “The Tarab Prince” was presented on a LED screen, that slightly reflected a wall-sized projection of “Ayooni”. In order to leave the gallery, the visitors had to walk down the corridor again. That allows them to experience the “Mañana Mañana” installation again, from another perspective. All pictures were taken by Nadav Porat-Chomsky.

 Exhibition plan

Raymonde

“Raymonde” is a multimedia installation that takes its inspiration from three LP record covers of Raymonde Abecassis. Abecassis, born 1943 in Casablanca, is a Jewish-Moroccan singer that is active in Israel since the 1970’s. Her songs were very popular among the Jewish-Moroccan public in Israel, and earned worldwide recognition. The Moroccan king Hassan II, who admired her music, invited her to perform in the Royal Palace in Rabat in 1981.

The three “Raymonde” LP records are floating in a space, projected onto faces of men striving smoke. The images that are projected in the installation are taken from the video clips of the successful band “Revivo’s Project”. The most popular songs of “Revivo’s Project” are re-interpretations of Israeli Mediterranean classics. Their video clips present the band members as they singing, drinking alcohol and smoking shishas while taking a part in a local party (“Hafla”). The soundtrack that accompanies the work is based on Darbuka drums recordings, playing in reverse.

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Sound design: Ofer Tisser / Documentation: Aviv Shiloh.
The records were taken from the archives of Chris Silver (JewishMorroco) and Uri “Mixmonster” Wertheim.